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NEWS: Cardfight!! Vanguard DivineZ Deluxe-hen Anime Revealed for Debut in January 2025

I am so behind on this show. of overdress i have only seen season 1, i have watch eveything before hand, and was one of the show that got me back into anime as well as being social (it was the only card game beside MTG that got played at my local card shop)

It's a shame the direction the D series has taken. Started by actually trying to do something different than what Yugioh has been doing for 20+ years, but enough people cried about having episodes focused on developing characters relationships instead of a match and not doing 1:1 play-by-play of every move, while also keeping things grounded in reality.

It's a shame the direction the D series has taken. Started by actually trying to do something different than what Yugioh has been doing for 20+ years, but enough people cried about having episodes focused on developing characters relationships instead of a match and not doing 1:1 play-by-play of every move, while also keeping things grounded in reality. Now we're stuck with incredibly tepid seasons following the same stale formula while introducing the same kinds of evil spirits and battles for the fate of the world we've been seeing since the Bush administration. Now we're back to a tournament, aka the premise for the worst season of D so far.

Think it says a lot that WIXOSS can deviate from the formula so much to critical acclaim because it was watched by people who just watch anime generally, while Vanguard is cursed with card game obsessives who balk at the slightest bit of change.

YackDe wrote:

It's a shame the direction the D series has taken. Started by actually trying to do something different than what Yugioh has been doing for 20+ years, but enough people cried about having episodes focused on developing characters relationships instead of a match and not doing 1:1 play-by-play of every move, while also keeping things grounded in reality.

Vanguard has never been grounded in reality, even if we go back to the very beginning of the franchise (the original Ito manga) Once the concept of PSYQualia was introduced into the OG series, the whole 'grounded' aspect went out the window. The difference with it and the shows and seasons after it were that the supernatural/all the Cray stuff was introduced slowly versus being instant. But then again, the OG show also ran the second longest (only falling to G's total episode count iirc but the OG series did have the Neon Messiah movie.) so it could afford to do that. None of D has had the pleasure of running for 100+ episodes. Even V struggled to reach 100 with having to introduce the new anime-only episodes for the High School arc, the anime-original Shinemon arc and IF.

Like many things with the D series anime, that aspect was completely dropped, so I assume Bushiroad felt the audience wasn't keen on it. We never even got a spoiler[catharsis episode where Yuyu finally tells his sister off for forcing him to wear women's clothing.]

I do think the shift to seasonal productions has hurt the show dramatically. It's very obvious that they have hard 13-episode arcs planned out, but between the constant new character introductions, the duels and the main plot, there's very little time for development. I haven't seen DivineZ's second season yet, but so much of the character threads in OverDress and willDress were just tossed aside with nothing resembling a satisfactory conclusion.